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Streett was a pioneering Army aviator,
participating in the Alaska flight in 1920 and serving as a test pilot
at Wright Field. He was on the staff of the Hawaiian Department
when Pearl Harbor was
attacked, served in training commands and in the Southwest
Pacific Area, and assumed command of 13 Air Force
in June 1944. He was among the Army officers perceptive enough to see
the dangers of divided command in the Pacific and identify MacArthur as the problem
(Hastings 2007):
At the risk of being naïve and just plain dumb, the major obstacle for a sane military solution of the problem [is] MacArthur ... even the President himself might find his hands tied in dealing with the general.
| 1893 |
Born at Washington, D.C. |
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| 1916-8-12
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Sergeant
|
Enlists in the Signal Corps and
is designated a flying cadet. |
| 1917-9-27 |
First
lieutenant |
Commissioned in the Signal
Officers' Reserve Corps |
| 1917-12 |
Officer in charge of flight
training, 5 Pursuit Group, France |
|
| 1918-11 |
Captain |
|
| 1920-7-1 |
First lieutenant |
Accepts a regular commission |
| 1920-11 |
Staff, Air Service |
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| 1922-7 |
Commander, Headquarters
Detachment, Bolling Field |
|
| 1924-1 |
Assistant chief, Airways
Section, Office of the Chief of the Air Corps |
|
| 1925-9 |
Air Corps Tactical School |
|
| 1926-8 |
Commander, Headquarters, 1
Pursuit Group, Selfridge Field |
|
| 1928-3 |
Chief, Flying Branch, Wright
Field |
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| 1932-8 |
Command and General Staff School |
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| 1934-6 |
Chemical Warfare
School |
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| 1934-9 |
Army War College |
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| 1935-6 |
Miscellaneous and Operations
Section, War Plans Division, War Department |
|
| 1939-6 |
Naval War College |
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| 1940-7 |
Colonel |
Commander, 11 Bombardment Group,
Hickam Field |
| 1941-4 |
Plans and Training Officer, Hawaiian Department |
|
| 1942-3 |
Chief, Theater Group, Operations
Division, Office of the Chief of Staff |
|
| 1942-11 |
Commander, 3 Air Force, Florida |
|
| 1943-9 |
Commander, 2 Air Force, Colorado |
|
| 1944-1 |
Southwest
Pacific Area |
|
| 1944-6 |
Major general | Commander, 13 Air Force |
| 1949-1 |
Deputy commander, Continental
Air Forces (later Strategic Air Command) |
|
| 1947-1 |
Chief, Military Personnel
Procurement Service |
|
| 1948-1 |
Air inspector, Office of the
Inspector General |
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| 1948-3 |
Deputy inspector general, Office of the Inspector General | |
| 1949-10 |
Deputy commander, Air Material
Command |
|
| 1951-12 |
Special assistant to the
commanding general, Air Material Command |
|
| 1952-2-1 |
Retires |
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| 1970-10-1 |
Dies |
References
Air Force Link (accessed 2008-11-7)
The Pacific War Online Encyclopedia (c) 2008 by Kent G. Budge. Index
